The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
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Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Ideas are the root of creation.
Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else can only follow a context, without recognizing the context as such. Herein lies the source of creativity and the genuinely new.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It's very childish.
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